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What was your stance on the cartoons/protests?

The cartoons were justified as an expression of freedom of speech, but protests were not.
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The following protests were justified as freedom of speech, but the cartoons were not.
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Neither were justified as freedom of speech.
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Both were justified as freedom of speech.
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GNiel
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What is your stance on the cartoons, and the following protests.

Just to clarify, the protests were the violent ones, stating behead those who insult Islam.
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Pete
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taking into account your formatting you clearly have an agenda you wish to push
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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Dr Lobster*
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it is quite clear that the publication of these cartoons is being used as an excuse for violence by some of the islamic community and i fail to see how anybody can justify such behavour for what is essentially a drawing. it's nonsense.

however, if you accept that those cartoons were a manifestation of free speech and that the protests were not then your position is untenable and you cannot truely be a supporter of free speech, in fact, you are no better than those muslim protesters in the first place.

freedom of speech cuts both ways.
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Without wishing to be self-promoting, for those who haven't seen them (which seems to be a surprisingly high proportion of those passing judgement around and about), the full set of cartoons is here.

Edit - It amuses me that I'm claiming not to be self-promoting right above this sig... :lol:
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Well with their cartoons insulting the jews, I feel they deserved a taste of their own medicine, besides its just a silly cartoon, quit over reacting.
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GNiel
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martindtanderson wrote:Well with their cartoons insulting the jews, I feel they deserved a taste of their own medicine, besides its just a silly cartoon, quit over reacting.
I could not agree more.
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Is it freedom of speech to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater?
Feynman: "String theorists do not make predictions, they make excuses."
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Jaron wrote:Is it freedom of speech to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater?
We spell it "theatre" over here, Jaron.

"Theater" is the Florida spelling.
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Nick Harvey wrote:
Jaron wrote:Is it freedom of speech to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater?
We spell it "theatre" over here, Jaron.

"Theater" is the Florida spelling.
For goodness sake, Corin is NOT Jaron!!!!!

How many times do we have to tell you! :roll:
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